11/10/2006

Today Is the Birthday of the United States Marines

My father-in-law was a Marine Corps pilot in World War II, flying combat cargo over the hump to China. When he grew too old to drive, my wife and I took posession of his shiny new minivan. On the back, it has a couple of Marine Corps stickers. One time in the parking lot at Home Depot, a guy came up to me and asked if I had been a Marine. When I explained the sticker, he looked relieved.

"I didn't think so," he said, "but I had to check."

The Republic remains in good hands, because people better than me are protecting it.